New WVS data-set release

WVS 6 data-set was released at 2014 WVS Global Conference “Values and societies between stability & change” that took place at Qatar University (Doha, Qatar) on April, 27-29, 2014.

Surveys within WVS wave 6 were conducted in 2010-2014. This wave covers nearly 60 countries and is the biggest wave in the history of WVS. Fieldwork for the sixth wave was finished on April 30, 2014.

Wave 6 questionnaire except for measuring standardized set of issues (support for democracy, tolerance to foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics, national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, subjective well-being, and etc.) includes also innovative batteries of items on such topics like human security, electoral integrity, and aging, as well as maintaining continuity with the series of items on social, economic, religious, and political values established since the founding wave.